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Abdullah Al-Arian

Abdullah Al-Arian is associate professor of history at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar.

The Lasting Significance of Egypt’s Rabaa Massacre — A polling station in Cairo’s western Giza district on March 25, 2018, hung with giant privately-sponsored electoral posters depicting incumbent President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi with the colors of the Egyptian flag. Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP via Getty Images

Current Analysis

The Lasting Significance of Egypt’s Rabaa Massacre

The Egyptian military's massacre of nearly 1,000 supporters of deposed president and Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad Mursi at Rabaa al-Adawiyya square in August 2013 continues to reverberate. Abdullah Al-Arian explains the massacre's long-term impact on the Muslim Brotherhood movement and Egyptia

Abdullah Al-Arian • 13 min read

MER Article

Egypt Dispatch

Last April, an Egyptian court acquitted Aya Hijazi and seven others of charges related to their work with a charitable foundation for Cairo’s street children. After nearly three years in prison, Hijazi, a dual US-Egyptian citizen, was released and allowed to return to the United States where Preside

Abdullah Al-Arian • 5 min read

Current Analysis

Between Terror and Tyranny

Nearly a year after Egypt’s first democratically elected president was overthrown by a military coup led by Field Marshal ‘Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, a spokesperson for the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) released a video statement [https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/11422-video-isis

Abdullah Al-Arian • 15 min read